EU banning Halogen bulbs!

[Gavin John Hyde]

Despite banning old filament bulbs and telling us all to use these halogen ones instead, the politburo and EU dictatorship have decided that we should now only use LED lamps and have banned halogen ones...
EU will ban halogen bulbs at the end of the month making lighting our homes TWICE as expensive | Daily Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6049349/EU-ban-halogen-bulbs-end-month-making-lighting-homes-TWICE-expensive.html

I have a friend who runs his dads convenience/discount store in Bristol and has a supply of the old bulbs still, he is importing them from India and customs haven't stopped so much as a single one. Would love to see the headline if he ended up in court, daft thing is he would likely end up getting longer than if he smuggled drugs!

 

[Des 56]

Intriguing. How's that then? A filament at ~ 4000K is going to radiate on many wavelengths, the majority of power being in infra-red.
So I'm speculating here someone is trying to invented a high temperature phosphor able to re-emit long wavelengths in visible? .. Link??..

The technology works,it seems its a matter of improving whats been achieved and reaching possible efficiency targets

Have a look at this link
MIT develops energy-efficient incandescent light bulbs - https://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/13/mit-energy-efficient-incandescent-light-bulb-research/

Oh and UNG,thanks for yet another dumb rating
This time its for a published Graph of peoples opinions (The dumb award for that one seems to be even dumber to me)

Maybe you can take it up with the publishers,I only copied and pasted the information,there again, maybe you are so narrow sighted you see nothing other than what you want to see

It would be refreshing to actually see you post something of your arguments,its tedious and a little boring watching you hitting the dumb button with monotonous regularity

 

[Rpa07]

Pound to a penny it’s his scrolling fat finger that hit ‘dumb’ whilst perusing your wonderful and enlightening posts!

The technology works,it seems its a matter of improving whats been achieved and reaching possible efficiency targets

Have a look at this link
MIT develops energy-efficient incandescent light bulbs - https://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/13/mit-energy-efficient-incandescent-light-bulb-research/

Oh and UNG,thanks for yet another dumb rating
This time its for a published Graph of peoples opinions (The dumb award for that one seems to be even dumber to me)

Maybe you can take it up with the publishers,I only copied and pasted the information,there again, maybe you are so narrow sighted you see nothing other than what you want to see

It would be refreshing to actually see you post something of your arguments,its tedious and a little boring watching you hitting the dumb button with monotonous regularity

 

[Toneyz]

This will now depend upon lumens per watt as for the colour the warm white ones are as close, people will get used to the colour.

 

[1Justin]

Have a look at this link

Thanks. Sounds like it may have more than a little in common with this then
How we can turn the cold of outer space into a renewable resource - https://www.ted.com/talks/aaswath_raman_how_we_can_turn_the_cold_of_outer_space_into_a_renewable_resource

 

[sparkdog]

And flying sparks.